The gift of a lifetime: 'The journey to motherhood took 20 years, but with the help of Laura, we're celebrating baby's first Christmas'
So far, so straight-forward really. "I started on the IVF journey in 2003," Elaine says. "Everything looked beautiful at first. I had loads of eggs, they fertilised great, everything was going really well. But for some reason, I was just not getting pregnant." After the first bout of IVF, Elaine had something called hyper stimulation; meaning, "I produced so many eggs that my immune system went into overdrive. All sorts of things can happen then. At one point I was in hospital for weeks with a bowel blockage and a suspected infection. I recovered. Certainly for some people, that would have be...
Source: independent.ie